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Conservative MP Vicky Ford asks if Theresa May will make it "crystal clear" to EU leaders that MPs stand firmly behind all its commitments under the Good Friday Agreement.

Theresa May says she can gladly give the assurance that the government is committed to stand by all its commitments under the Good Friday Agreement, and will make this clear to the EU.

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Labour's Owen Smith says there is a "rising tide of racism" in the UK.

Race hate crime has risen 100% since she came to office, he says. He states that last year there were 172,000 separate attacks. He asks: "What is happening to our country?"

Theresa May says that when she was home secretary she took measures to ensure that hate crime was being recorded correctly. She says that Home Secretary Sajid Javid has recently "reviewed and revised our hate crime strategy" and adds that hate has "no place in our society".

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Labour MP Sandy Martin says his constituent has two terminal illnesses and reapplied for PIP on 19 December. She didn't receive an assessment until 6 January, and still hasn't received a response from her application.

He asks if the PM thinks it is "fair or sensible" that as well as losing her benefits, his constituent has also lost her blue badge, her bus pass and her carers.

Ms May says this is a constituency issue and she'll ask the relevant department to look at it.

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Conservative MP Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown says there is a clear choice: remaining in the customs union or supporting a fully functioning independent free trade policy.

He calls for the leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn to "alter his red lines and allow businesses and people to thrive" by having an independent free trade policy.

Theresa May says she wants to have a good relationship with the EU, but to also ensure the UK will have an independent free trade policy with countries around the world.

This will be a benefit not only for the UK, but also for some of the poorest countries in the world, and this is our commitment to the British people, she concludes.

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The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford says that two weeks ago the PM told MPs that a renegotiation was not possible. He asks if the prime minister has "inadvertently misled" MPs or has the government's incompetence "reached a whole new level".

Theresa May says that the Commons rejected the deal, so now the government is looking at what can be agreed to get the support of MPs. She says his remarks on the Good Friday Agreement are "irresponsible".

Mr Blackford says the "only thing that is irresponsible are the actions of this prime minister".

He says that Scots were told in 2014 during their independence referendum that staying in the UK would keep Scotland in the EU. "You've promised everything and delivered nothing," he finishes.

Mrs May says that Scotland is in the UK and the UK as a whole voted to leave the EU. "Over 60% of Scotland's exports go to the rest of the UK," she states.

She says the SNP want to "erect a border between Scotland and England". "The biggest threat to the future of Scotland" are the SNP, she finishes.

Mark D'Arcy
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The Speaker is in aggressive mood today - stamping hard on heckling by the Conservative minister Michael Ellis, and then rebuking the “Treasury Bench” (the government front bench) for encouraging heckling.

He’s back to the kind of mocking put-downs that made him a lot of Tory enemies…

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Jeremy Corbyn says: "It really is time that the prime minister has got to acknowledge that she's got to move on from the red lines that she put down."

"Our responsibility is to bring people together," he says. "We are the House of Commons, we do represent the entire country."

He says he's looking forward to discussing with the PM how bringing together Leavers and Remainers can be achieved, adding that changes to the backstop alone will not be sufficient.

Businesses and trade unions are clear they need a customs union and access to the single market to "avoid the damage of no deal".

He says the PM may have succeeded in "temporarily uniting her very divided party", but asks whether she will make the "more important compromises and unite the country".

Mrs May says he's a "fine one to talk about coming together", when he only agreed to meet with her last night.

The majority of MPs have said that the issue is the backstop, whereas his Brexit proposals were rejected.

"He has no plan for Brexit, no good plan for our economy and no plan for our country," she says.

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Jeremy Corbyn calls for the prime minister to acknowledge that MPs voted to take no-deal off the table yesterday.

He asks Theresa May if she doesn't get a deal which MPs support, if she will support plans for "a strong single market, comprehensive customs union and the guaranteeing of rights and protections rather than the alternative she has been threatening - to crash out with no-deal".

Theresa May says: "You cannot just vote to reject no-deal, you have to support a deal."

She calls on Jeremy Corbyn to declare his position, and asks if he will ensure that - if the government comes back a revised deal - that he will support it.

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Jeremy Corbyn says that he is "looking forward to meeting the prime minister later on today".

He says that he wants to put across "alternatives that could command a majority" from MPs. He asks what "technological advances is she expecting to be made in the next 58 days" for the Northern Ireland border.

Theresa May says there are "a number of options" that are being suggested, and she says that last night the House voted to reject no-deal.

She says the House has sought to make changes to the backstop.

"He has opposed every move by this government to get a deal, he is the one who is risking no-deal," she finishes.

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Jeremy Corbyn says "last time I looked at the order paper, it's Prime Minister's Question Time".

He says it's perfectly reasonable to ask which red lines have changed.

The Brexit secretary has said this morning that "options" are being explored in terms of alternatives to the backstop, he says and he asks specifically which options are being explored.

Mrs May says if he listens to her answers, he wouldn't have to repeat the question.

BBC parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy says: It doesn’t look like a packed house for PMQs – the Tories’ “Remainer Corner” is looking rather underpopulated today.

Others have noticed it too, including the Telegraph's correspondent:

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Jeremy Corbyn says, in response to Theresa May's previous answer, that "none of that was clear to me, I don't know about anyone else".

The PM tried to whip her MPs to try and support no-deal and was defeated on that, he says.

Jeremy Corbyn adds that the EU say they are willing to negotiate if the government's red lines are to change, and calls for Theresa May to say which of her red lines are going to change.

Theresa May says the votes yesterday "crucially showed what it will take to seek support in this House for a deal in the future".

"We can obtain a substantial and sustainable deal with support in this House," she says, noting she is pleased Jeremy Corbyn has now agreed to meet with her.

She questions whether Mr Corbyn's preference for a relationship with a strong single market means he wants to accept EU state rules, "we need to know with greater clarity what the gentleman believes in."

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